gritty musings...Bright Shiny Pennies

i know, i know...another rant about mitt and ryan...the antichrists in control of the house and senate...but riddle me this...is their chant, their knock, their screaming crescendo of high pitched tweaking voices...jobs...jobs...jobs...obama hasn't created enough...dropped the ball...well remember the jobs act he proposed...the one that would be funded by a tax on billionaires...not hundredaires or thousandaires or even millionnaires... but billionaires...people with so much money that if you stacked it on their chest...the sheer efficacy  would crush them like tiny beetles under foot!...not an entirely un attractive notion...yet ...no they blocked that bill...keep the billionaires happy...big oil wants to drill in the artic national park...go ahead...doesn't matter that the oil will go to china...the largest consumer nation on the planet...run a pipeline from Canada thru the midwest.s largest fresh water reserves...go ahead...make a buck...enact a law prohibiting laws to pro

so I got a new gig...a small-ish restaurant out on the beach..kinda below my pay grade...but its work, and in this economy ...the one handed chef needs to ...so with new job comes new hours...and by this I mean some day work...the go to bed early, be in the restaurant by half past eight early...I get slightly nauseous just thinking about it...but I  am meandering...home by six ..I get to catch the local news..at the commercial break  it starts...five unrelenting minutes of right wing bashing...anti Obama, anti bill nelson, anti anything that smells democratic...now what struck me, what made me wait for the next break...was.. where was the response...where where were Obama ads...pointing out the differences...the obvious choice we have to make in the very near future...well folks they were missing...and you know why??..its because there is no longer any governor on what private interest can do to buy an election...we are witnessing the dismantlement of our government in front of our e

I grew up with a guy...since we were very young...we have seen tragedies together, laughed and seen a great deal of joy along side each other...I have buried his mom and watched his kids be born...we got to be middle aged at the same time..he is rich or at least I think he is...he has all the trappings of wealth...poor people like me tend to think anyone with anything is wealthy by comparison...but here is the rub McDuff...we have so many loves...music, art, food ...I am a liberal and then a democrat...he is a liberal/conservative republican...the liberal part is easier than you would think to reconcile...we both favor women's rights..racial equality, immigration fairness and gay rights...but I would never, ever vote republican and he would never ever vote democratic...we both understand the fruitlessness of a third party in a national election...i always found  Ralph Nader  more than annoying, sniggling votes away from my candidate...and he thinks Ron Paul is a well meaning, imp